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His body should have been subjected to an autopsy, to forensic testing by an experienced medical examiner, to extensive photographing of entrance and exit wounds, to paraffin testing for gun-powder residue, and to other such forensic examination.
Mishandling bin Laden's Body Alan M. Dershowitz 2011
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I believe its more like everyone is sitting on a keg of gun-powder and the day it will explode .... katztales
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He dropped down beside me, looking back at the wagon; it was perhaps thirty yards off, with the waxed brown packet of gun-powder sitting on top of the ammunition boxes, and the tiny white primer fixed to the side of the packet.
Watershed 2010
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Conspiracy in Paris;: The strange career of Joseph Picot de Limoelan, aristcrat, soldier, and priest, and the gun-powder plot against Napoleon on 3 NivoÌ ‚ se, year IX (December 24, 1800) by David Darrah
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Johnny later moved in with Hunter ... to a bedroom in the basement (that featured an accidental gun-powder keg as a night stand) to study Hunter before playing Raoul Duke in "Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas."
Anita Thompson: Johnny Depp: There's More To The Story, Gonzo 2009
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Idli podi or gun-powder as it is popularly called is a fiery, dry chutney powder that is served with idlis.
Archive 2009-03-01 Jyothsna 2009
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Idli podi or gun-powder as it is popularly called is a fiery, dry chutney powder that is served with idlis.
Idli Podi - Kerala Style Jyothsna 2009
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Amongst these may be numbered the discovery of the uses of fire, the calling on the strength of animals to facilitate labour, the invention of letters, preparing and spinning vegetable substances, the discovery of iron, of the magnet, and of gun-powder.
Progress of Society 2006
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Blackwater riverbank copybook battleground commonplace tablecloth riverfront eye-witness summerhouse landlady paddle-boat gentleman thunderclap gun-powder ferryboat
"Did he just say 'orgy'?!" Ann Althouse 2008
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A woodsy scent with undertones of musk and gun-powder.
The Boys Next Door Jennifer Echols 2007
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